RogueIdea

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

The most dangerous of battlefield insertions, crash down pods were a disposable method for infantry deployment. Dropped from orbit, the crash down pods had limited guidance, and could not compensate for things like storms or strong winds that could knock them off course. Generally they could land with in a few miles of their intended target. It actually wasn't anti-air defenses that made deployment via crash down pods dangerous, it was the somewhat random nature of the drop. A pod co

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I thought of that after I wrote it. I'll take some cheese points for it :p When I was experimenting with modding GC I introduced a nano plague invasion option, as well as nano augmented soldiers as another (very expensive) invasion option. I never got the nano soldiers to work right, ideally 1000 of them would be enough to take out 16000+ population planets. The nano plague was better, essentially more destructive Mass Drivers that both increased the offense % and decreased the

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Every society has a dark underbelly. Like a tree that is beautiful on the outside, but rotting and dying from the inside out, if the root system could be unearthed the rot would be revealed. Fetid organisms darting this way and that, climbing over each other and in and out of burrows on there way to or from their next meal on the roots, on the carcasses of other fetid organisms, and sometime even on each other. Biting, stinging, feasting on the roots of the tree, slowly choking it to death as

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

"'A rogue military element?'" "That's what the Torian consulate said." "Bullshit, sir," Jackson said with a scowl on his face. "I hear 'rogue military element' and I think Drengin, not Torian. Since when did they teach their children anything but peace and love? And why would a rogue military element want to capture our colonies instead of launching a coup at the Torian government? Where did they get their equipment? Something stinks about all this." "Agreed, but

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Couple minor syntax and spelling points: pretty sure you mean the ship shuddered rather than shuttered and also CAPTAIN is spelt like that rather than Captianonly small points; the story is excellent and one of the best I have read in a while [/quote] Doh! You're right, I knew that didn't look right. Thanks for the spelling tip on Captain too--not sure why/how I missed that one. Seems I can't edit my story posts for some reason to fix it, but it's letting me edit th

Reply to An homage to the AAR. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Niiice...you a Howard Stern fan? And will his soldiers do their duty (doody)?

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

"Hard to port! Don't let them flank us, Ensign!" It was three against one--and they don't have a chance, Jackson thought. The Leyte Gulf--a Tuscon-class battleship--was extraordinarily nimble for such a large ship. Much of that speed and nimbleness came from the warp ring that streamlined the subspace warp field around the ship. It gave the ship not only much greater straight-line warp speed but much more maneuvering speed as well. That speed came with a price, however: Leyte Gulf had a sma

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Ok, thanks to Kryo and back by popular demand xD, the ships of the 7th Expeditionary Fleet! The Tuscon-class fast battleship is designed for long range patrol and interdiction. The Tuscon-class is a capable, well armed and well defended combatant, but cannot stand up to ships of similar size with heavier armaments and lesser speed. [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/RogueIdea/BB_Tuscon_Iso.jpg[/IMG] The 'warp ring' is responsible for the greater speed of th

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"TARGET!" "UP!" "FIRE!" The MT80 rocked sharply as the main gun fired with a sharp boom. A just landed crash down pod off in the distance exploded magnificently. The tank sped across the prairies which had become a battlefield, littered with debris, spent ordnance and shattered bodies and vehicles. The crash down pods were still coming in rapidly, it was all the crew could do to keep up with targets. "Shuttle, 500 meters, coming in fast!" "Corpora

Reply to Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

So far this is an amalgamation of a few games I've played. I had this one game where the Torians were surprisingly aggressive, I'm not sure how or why it happened but there was probably an entire year of peace then the Torians just got something up their backside and decided to go aggressive. I've just started getting back into GalCiv and decided I need a creative writing outlet as well. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Reply to New copy protection comming for Spore and Mass Effect (EA) in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Shenanigans. There are very few people in the world who will pay for something they've already got for free.[/quote] Not entirely accurate. Years ago when the whole Napster thing was in the news about music file sharing, there was a study done that showed music sales went UP since the whole Napster thing. Interviews showed that people were making more purchase of full albums after being able to sample a few songs on Napster.

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote]Try the workaround described in reply #2 of this thread if you want to try and get textures working without buying a new system.[/quote] Wow, thanks alot kryo! It worked!

Shadow Sun in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

It was a beautiful day: sunny and warm without being swelteringly hot, a few clouds in the spring sky with a gentle breeze. "A perfect day for some yardwork," Aleksander Lashenko said to himself. Yardwork indeed, he was planting a fresh patch of grass after the installation of a new septic system had torn up part of the yard. He took a moment to gaze into the sky with satisfaction when he saw what looked like a daytime meteor shower. "Crash down pods!" he said breathless

Reply to One for Kryo... in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks Kryo. I didn't realize that once you start a game the ship data is static. I was making these changes and confused because I didn't see any of them...but it did work, I had to start a new game for the change to take effect. Thanks again.

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote]RogueIdea--Man get a new(er) graphics card. I've got a PNY GEForce FX5200 PCI card with 256MB DDR...even that is ancient, laughable really--you can probably pick one up for about $70 USD nowadays. In the meantime, if you want PM me and I'll give you my email. You can send me the .shipcfg & .xml files in a zip folder and I'll screenshot it on my sys when I get some time and zip it back to you for posting.[/quote] Well I'd like to get a new gfx card but I've got a notebook PC...

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Here's a couple more: The Tuscon-class battleship: [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/RogueIdea/BB_Tuscon.jpg[/IMG] The Burke-class cruiser which as supplanted the Normandy-class cruiser in primary combat operations: [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/RogueIdea/CC_Burke.jpg[/IMG] And finally, a redesign--again--of the Tallenbach-class destroyer yielded the new Austin-class: [IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote]I like the look of the Tallenbach...but why no textures? It really takes away from the designs.[/quote] Unfortunately my gfx card won't display them on GCII for some reason. It doesn't seem to have a problem with textures for other 3d games. I just have a GeForce Go 4400 w/ 64MB, and I have the most recent drivers.

Reply to One for Kryo... in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

This is an old post but could you give some detailed instructions so I have a better idea what to do?

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

(Please excuse the lack of textures) The Normandy-class cruiser is heavily armed and more of a 'pocket battleship' than a true cruiser; the Normandy-class was first in service near the end of the First Galactic War. It is arguable that the introduction of the Normandy-class led to the final demise of the Yor Collective, however critics cite that the small squadron available on the front lines was not significant enough to cause a turn in the tide of battle. Even more critical voices s

Graphics Issues: Missing Textrues on ships? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Last week I formatted my HD and re-installed my OS, etc. Got the newest version of DL/DA from SDC, and went to play a game and...all the ships are white. Just white. I've got beautiful planets and stars, but plain white ships. Note that before the newest updates I didn't have gfx issues. debug.err: Debug Message: Version v1.61 Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 13 14:10:36 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info fo

Reply to A curious crash: MS Document Explorer in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

WB has had application exclusion features for about 8 years I think but 5.5 may have made them easier to see. Well, good to know Anyway...any idea why it's crashing? I've got some smart exception stuff if you think it might help.

Reply to NLC's and Industrial Sectors broke my economy in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

A stupid thought: what would I do in RL if taxes would be anywhere *near* 79%? Ugh! Yeah...I hate putting my taxes higher than 51%, game or not.

Reply to Tiny Ships: Any use for them? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

But they make great little starbase destroyers! Nothing like an 'Eclectic'-class combat constructor. Space the enemy resource starbase and deploy your own in the same turn

Reply to A curious crash: MS Document Explorer in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I thought that might be part of it, but one of the reasons I didn't buy it about...maybe 6-8months ago was because it was crashing doc explorer. I'm not sure if the exclusion by app was recently added or not but as long as I can run doc explorer some way or another I'm probably going to purchase it on my next pay.

Reply to A curious crash: MS Document Explorer in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Windows XP/SP2 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316) WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (build 93 x86)) - Shareware WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins. (Default Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M Wblind.dll 2007/03/07 10:09:44 Wbsrv.dll 2007/03/05 16:36:25 Wbconfig.exe 2007/03/06 20:11:09 Wbload.exe 2006/09/30 13:59:14<b